Video since 2020, activists are fighting against the extension of a huge coal mine in Lützerath, in the Rhine basin. Wednesday, January 11, the police began an intervention to dismantle the area to defend (ZAD).
by Delphine Bernard-Bruls
“It is the 1.5 ° C red line” of the Paris agreements, explains Sacha (the first name has been modified), an environmental activist who occupies the village of Lützerath, in western Germany. With hundreds of other zadists, it fights against the extension of the immense Garzweiler coal mine, which threatens to engulf the very small town.
Since the mid -1980s, the mine has swallowed very many villages by growing, an unbearable vision for these environmental activists who make Lützerath the symbol of the judgment of this expansion which does not seem to have to Stop.
The police began, Wednesday, January 11, an evacuation of the village, which could take three weeks, according to local authorities.